LOL a lot of optimism but no increase in sales = meaningless. The optimism is probably based on rising home prices on Fannie and Freddie reintroducing the NINJA loan. We know where this optimism leads yet they still re-introduced the under 5% down loan.

Don't expect Iran to benefit much. Sooner or later they will resume nuke development and hopefully they will be caught doing so. There is strong belief they may not have even stopped developing them now. Israel is justified in their worry.

Despite Obama, the best way to prevent a nuke build up in the Middle East is to prevent anyone there from developing them. Sadly, this treaty doesn't guarantee it and may actually encourage Iran to continue and help fund them to speed up and relocate their development. They have yet to admit to development work they already have done which is already pretty evident to everyone. If the world doesn't draw a hard line on Iran and N. Korea then the world is just waiting for inevitable nuclear war.

It's still better than it should be. This bailout just makes the next one they will need bigger. The debt, the government ,and the economy is still unsustainable and will get worse not better. It is a shame people still won't deal with the facts. By the next time this rolls around Spain may be in the same boat as Greece.

It's worth watching. Right now I think everyone's patching the short term even though it makes a worse problem in the future. Watch this rise and then when the balloon starts to fall again short it. Greece's long term problems are still unsolvable without massive debt write offs and government cuts that are deeper than proposed.

Some portfolios are geared for safety. There is nothing wrong with this and the recent upturn is brought on by the Fed keeping easing going throughout the cycle. This is not just bad policy but inevitably destructive for the economy and the market. Revisit this topic after the next downturn.

It's really quite sad that the market and the fed are oblivious about the real market but instead the market is focused on Fed zirpiness and the Fed is as clueless as a can be. They successfully did what was only done before the great depression, eased money supply throughout the whole cycle and are now considering raising rates into a downturn lol.

Sadly creditors are responsible for their own irresponsible lending and borrowers are responsible for their own debt, a basic theory of capitalism many seem to be forgetting. Forgetting the basic principals of capitalism ends up making very big messes.

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China's recent actions do indeed create bigger problems in the future, namely no one will want to own 5% or more of a company in the future and there won't be shorts around later to vilify and who provide buyers to help staunch future declines.

LOL let's see how Yellen plays this up as strong growth again, lol. clearly china sees the drop in imports. Sadly the US market should be reflecting the even worse steep drop off in exports from the US.

It makes sense from economies of scale and competition, however, it has almost no chance to go through politically. Buying up competitors while the industry is doing poorly is a great strategy if it can be done. However, I doubt this deal ever gets competed, and if it does it may be done with terms that are bad for Potash.

Everyone knows that this is a band aid on a deeply bullet wounded economy. There is no way this makes Greece sustainable. It was reckless to lend them this amount of money and reckless to lend them more. They will default sooner or later or get a gigantic haircut on their loans. It is a foregone conclusion.

There is still speculation that this recent deal doesn't even go through.

Although I'm usually positive on China, I am very much against China's moves to restrict trading the same way anyone should be against such moves in any country. It is extremely damaging in that it is artificial, it destroys the reason for a stock market in terms of fair pricing, liquidity, and viability. China's leaders must learn that such measures does not deal with the underlying facts and may make things much worse, not better.

If they don't want such corrections don't allow the market to spike up ridiculously on speculation in the first place. Worse still is their move to block and punish short sellers who tend to be the only reverse buyers in a falling market. Shorts tend to offer a cushion from a market collapse as they close their positions and even reverse them.

He has a valid point and good graphs. It takes time for an unsustainable system to collapse, especially when it is financed with unsustainably cheap debt and a utterly insane central bank policy of easy money all the way through the cycle. It is ridiculous that they call this Keynesian, it is obviously not Keynesian if they keep easing in the upturn. In fact, it is opposite of Keynesian. It is in fact utterly insane given if follows no model besides that leading up to the Great Depression.